searxng/docs/admin/installation-searxng.rst

Step by step installation

Contents

In this section we show the setup of a SearXNG instance that will be installed by the installation scripts.

Install packages

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Hint

This installs also the packages needed by searxng uwsgi

Create user

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Install SearXNG & dependencies

Start a interactive shell from new created user and clone SearXNG:

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In the same shell create virtualenv:

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To install SearXNG's dependencies, exit the SearXNG bash session you opened above and start a new one. Before installing, check if your virtualenv was sourced from the login (~/.profile):

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Tip

Open a second terminal for the configuration tasks and leave the (searx)$ terminal open for the tasks below.

Configuration

use_default_settings: True

• settings global
• settings location
• settings use_default_settings
• /etc/searxng/settings.yml <utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml>

To create a initial /etc/searxng/settings.yml we recommend to start with a copy of the file utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml. This setup use default settings <settings use_default_settings> from searx/settings.yml and is shown in the tab "Use default settings" below. This setup:

• enables limiter <limiter> to protect against bots
• enables image proxy <image_proxy> for better privacy
• enables cache busting <static_use_hash> to save bandwith

Modify the /etc/searxng/settings.yml to your needs:

Use default settings

../../utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml

To see the entire file jump to utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml

searx/settings.yml

../../searx/settings.yml

To see the entire file jump to searx/settings.yml

For a minimal setup you need to set server:secret_key.

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Check

To check your SearXNG setup, optional enable debugging and start the webapp. SearXNG looks at the exported environment $SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH for a configuration file.

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If everything works fine, hit [CTRL-C] to stop the webapp and disable the debug option in settings.yml. You can now exit SearXNG user bash session (enter exit command twice). At this point SearXNG is not demonized; uwsgi allows this.